Maritime record 14017 - ALICE: NORTH MINCH

NB64NE 8001 unlocated

NLO: Tolsta Head (Ceann or Rubha Tholastaidh) [name: NB 565 469].

30 March 1898 ALICE, 13 years, of Stornoway, wood steam fishing boat, 21 ton, 8 men. Master D. Smith. Owner J. Mackenzie, Stornoway. Stornoway to fishing. Ballast. Machinery broke down vessel abanoned. Wind NE5. 6 miles E of Talsta [Tolsta] Head, Island of Lewis.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1897-98 (1899 [C.9384] LXXXVII.409).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 849).

(Registration number cited as SY 1138 and classified as wooden steam trawler, in ballast: date of loss cited as 30 March 1898). This vessel was abandoned 6 miles E of Tolsta Head.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is derived from the location cited by Larn and Larn. The fate of the remains of the vessel is nit recorded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 June 2002.
R and B Larn 1998.

REPORT DATE: 29/09/2003